For Democrats to recover, ALL left-of-center people should be made welcome in the party.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. You're one of my favorite posters, so I welcome you being here!

I missed the arguments on DU during the primaries since I didn't join until later. Maybe I'd be a little vengeful if I went through it? I doubt it, though.

I also don't care that some of the Bernie Sanders supporters apparently joined that Jackpine site later. There's going to be some kooks among any group of people.

I've agreed with people on issues, only to be later surprised by the "reasoning" of the other people to reach that agreement. For example, if someone is concerned about CO2 and climate change, I'm not going to argue against them too much if their faulty reasoning is that CO2 emissions from humans is some kind of mind control conspiracy. I'll argue against that kind of nutty thinking, and I won't respect the person as much, but I'm not going to argue to the point of driving them away either. (I wouldn't support a candidate who spouted such nonsense, but I wouldn't turn against a voter with those odd ideas too strongly.)

Edit: I created that example from my imagination, but here's a better one that's more realistic. I've known some African Americans who vote for Democrats because they're hoping for reparations. I don't agree with the idea of cash-payment reparations for slavery, at least not now. It would've made more sense in the past with slave owners paying for it. Do I resent them voting for Democrats? Of course not! Maybe I wouldn't trust them to remain loyal to Democrats if, somehow, Republicans started arguing for reparations (which is extremely hypothetical if not impossible), but I'm not going to drive them away from the party in the meantime.